Photoshop Workshop: iMovie 2

Adding Special Touches

The first thing you will want to do is add a title. One simple way is to simply add the title so it appears over the top of the first part of your movie.
You can also add a title to a separate blank clip at the beginning of your movie. One simple way to get a blank clip is to select all in your Timeline, then click, hold, and drag to the right, opening up a blank space at the beginning. Drag about 5 or 6 seconds worth for the title.
Now control click in the empty space and select Convert Empty Space to Clip.
If necessary click on your new black clip to select it, then click on the Editing tab. Make sure Titles is selected in the options to add the kind of Title you want. Click on one to see what it does.
With a title type selected you will see a preview appear in the viewing pane and notice you have a number of different options for that type.
You can type in the words you wish to appear, select the color for the type face, select the font, determine the time you wish the effect to take, and how long to pause at the end, and so on. The options will vary depending on which title effect you select.
When you are satisfied with your title, click the Add button. You'll notice a little red bar appear in the Timeline as the effect is rendered into your movie.

You probably don't want your movie to just abruptly end, but rather fade out with some dignity.
With Editing still selected, click on the upper tab for Transitions, and, with the play head at the end of your movie, select the Fade Out transition, pick the length of time you want it to use, and drag the transition to the end of the movie.
We will go into more detail on Transitions in the next section, but that should work just fine for your first simple project.
If you want you can even add a closing credit to the end.

If you did not add music to some or all the movies in iPhoto, you can do that now. One advantage of doing it here is that you can have the music play during the opening title sequence.
Click the Media tab above the Timeline, then click the Audio tab at the top of the pane. Select iTunes, click on the Time column to arrange by time.
Click to select the items in the Timeline you want to play a piece music with. For instance, if your first track has no music, and you want to get something to play with it and the opening title, you would click the title clip, hold down the shift key and click the next clip. You'll notice the bottom of the window will now show the number of items selected and their total time.
Now look at the iTunes library pane and scroll down until you see a piece of music that is about that long and drag it from the pane into the Timeline below your selected items. You can move it around a bit until it fits--you may want to have it start a second or two later than the title begins.

You can now Export your project. You can send it to iDVD, make a self-contained QuickTime movie to burn to a CD, make a compressed movie to attach to an email or put on a web site, and so on.
How much time is taken for the export varies wildly, as does the file size, depending on the options you choose. I put a web version of this project up HERE. It runs about 4 and half minutes, it should stream. The total file size is 7MBs, and it rendered in roughly 10 minutes.